Shameless theft of one of M. Adolfsson's ideas as a final project

Shameless theft of one of M. Adolfsson's ideas as a final project

Many sincere thanks, Mattias (or rather Mr. Adolfsson, which feels more correctly respectful), for this course. It is well designed and flows from simple conceit to complex concept. Here's what I learned:
1. Drawing is hard. For me. My intention in taking this course was to learn how to draw from the imagination. For each minute my mind coughed up an idea, I suffered 23 hours and 59 minutes of blankness. Trying too hard? Just lacking inner resources? Poor visualization skills? I was stunned to discover how little I knew about objective reality at this late stage in life (I'm 65): what does a dog's hind leg look like? The hooves of a horse? A pig's snout? Although I've seen them all many times, when pen hits the paper, I'm at a loss to represent it. Is this a common experience?
2. Color is hard. I had visions of the fun of using different colors, and the pleasure it might bring. Instead, the choices seemed insurmountable. I did one or two drawings using only diluted ink, and one or two with one color. When given free access to all the colors in the palette, the result was always disappointing. The discipline of a limited palette is crushed under the gluttony of wanting every color to play with.
3. My respect and admiration for M. Adolfsson's skills is tremendous. How does he imagine layers of knobs and buttons interspersed with tubes and hydraulic lines, all resulting in a recognizable robot, and without a pencil under drawing? Sigh.
4. Tightness vs. looseness. It is a valuable experiment to copy any of M. Adolfsson's drawings. Guaranteed yours will be missing the life in his. His drawings have an impression of looseness, but there is not a pointillist eyeball out of place. Looseness and precision exist side by side. I have no idea how.

Thank you again for the course.